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Validation of a theory similar to that came to me upon watching a lecture by a neurologist, but that had to do with why women do not excel at math. There are other reasons as well (like women not socially being driven towards mathematical fields, not caring, etc)
The reason for this was lack of practice with developing parts of the brain that deal with spatial perception. I simply infer that this may be the case with driving as well. I do so mainly because I'm struck by how many poor drivers are simply just misjudging space. Like watch the one where the chick can't park for like 2 minutes then the dude parks in one try. The difference was that she was not using the space around her while he was. Spatial perception is something that is necessary when playing sports or video games. If you have the football and you're running towards the end zone, you're constantly making instantaneous calculations about how fast you're moving, how fast others are moving, in what directions, where the holes are and are not, where holes are most likely to develop, where your body needs to be at what point to achieve the best results, etc
I'm sure that Asians that suck at driving neither grew up on sport nor video games. That stereotype has more to do with Asian women, for starters, but also has to do with immigrants who are usually not technologically savvy up to US standards, and usually come from poorer backgrounds that don't engage in sport as actively
There could be another reason along the lines of women not really caring much for or not paying much attention to automobiles whereas men do, and this affects their driving abilities somehow. I haven't thought much on that one though...
P.S. Poor Asian drivers could be for so many reasons. Like another one could be lack of practice since they're usually coming from a country that doesn't drive as much, or that the traffic laws and standards are very different than US. I hear tell that somebody from the US would have a very difficult time driving in India, for example
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